Friday, Jan. 13, 1939
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Southern Oregon Miner
Leonard N. Hall
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
Editor and Publisher
By EARI. SNELL
Secretary of State
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The people of Ashland, through their city council,
have started oft into a year of missionary work witn
greater tourist attention, increased Shakespearean
festival attendance and new citizens as theii goal.
However, attracting new people to Ashland and
satisfying them once tney’ve come means a lot more
than publicity and magazine stories. There s much
that must be done here after the newcomer has been
enticed.
,
:
We’ve got to make him like it here and worth his
while to stay.
We must make him feel welcome and we must ex
tend unusual willingness to cooperate with him both
socially and in business. To date this end of our hos
pitality toward new residents and business men is
badly neglected.
For example, it is understood that one business
man who came here a few months ago invested moi e
than $10,000 but now is anxious to dispose of his hold
ings at a sacrifice if necessary’ and get out. He has
felt not only a lack of friendliness in Ashland, but
also a business hostility and unwillingness to cooper
ate on the part of city officials and community leaders.
Before we concentrate too much on bringing in
more men to invest in Ashland’s future we should
see to it if we can that not one single person already
here is permitted to become dissatisfied.
We don’t want to bait people into coming here and
let things go at that. We must follow through on our
plan to better Ashland’s future by making a sincere
effort to cooperate with all newcomers and make them
all feel like we’re really glad they came and are anx
ious to do what we can to keep them here.
The hiring of a publicity agent by the city can be
a good business investment for Ashland, but we’ve
got to snap out of it if we would gain lasting value
for the community.
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IMPRACTICAL LAWS SHOW THEIR FLAWS!
Oregon’s recently inaugurated marriage la tv is a
glaring example of what’s wrong with most well-meant
but too enthusiastically-framed initiative and referen
dum measures.
Those who voted for the stringent marriage law
did so with a feeling of righteous hostility toward
venereal diseases and believed the measure would do
something definite toward their eradication. But what
has been the result?
Since the law went into effect, in Jackson county
alone, 22 couples were driven to Yreka, Calif., while
but six have remained to comply. Which shows that
the intention of legislation sometimes has very little
to do with its effect.
That most couples now repair to a neighboring
state for nuptials is not a reflection on their ability
to pass the Oregon law’s required examination but,
rather, is a demonstration of the age-old axiom that
human beings always will follow the course of least
resistance.
And why not? Unusual man-made restrictions or
red tape are neither desirable nor particularly bene
ficial. Examination fees for a couple now are $10,
whereas in California, for instance, most of that
amount can be saved for more practical things such
as rent, groceries or gasoline for a honeymoon.
And not only are couples boycotting the Oregon
marriage law, but also many doctors, who feel that
the $5 fee per person is not sufficient compensation
for the involved examination required. Yet the $5 cost
seems to be too much already for those who must
pay it. So there you are—a law with a worthwhile
and noble objective defeats itself.
Prior to the election The Miner insisted that every
measure on the ballot should be defeated, principally
because most of it lacked practicality. Our marriage
law is kicking back, and the anti-picketing measure
has denied Oregon federal funds.
Meanwhile, local couples flock to other states, and
who can blame them for their preference?
PICTURE8
"New York and Boston news
papers had a good, old-fashioned
By P. O. DAVIS
Roman Holiday of photographic
Director, Alabama Extension
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Service
South Paris, Maine.
From the beginning we have
"To us, the various poses of Bar
been taught that institutions, bara Carroll, taken while her fa
agencies and doctrines which mer ther was on trial for murder, were
it permanency are allowed to live, shocking and repulsive to decent-
and that, on the other hand, those minded persons—-or should be,
things which are useless or un
"Don’t blame the girl. From all
worthy of life must die and dis- I we've read about her she's below
appear.
average mentally, and probably
As we ourselves live and think putty in the hands of fast-talking
and study and observe we see that big city camera men.
this doctrine is true. Because it is
"Don't blame her mother. She is
true, it, too, is allowed to endure probably
about the same mental
and to guide us in our procedure. gait as the daughter, and as pli
It is a light that guides- a truth . able when the hocus-pocus boys
that sustains. With it wo can label' got to work on her.
the things upon which we can de
“Don't blame the camera men.
pend and recognize the doctrines They've been brought up in a hard
upon which we can rely.
school, it’s their way of making a
To me an example of this is the living, and they were working un
press- daily,
weekly,
monthly. der orders.
Since it is a human institution we
“Blame, instead, the newspaper
admit its imperfections but we moguls,
the ruthless big shots who
recognize its qualities which en sit behind the great mahogany
dure. It has a place in the hearts desks and deliberately pander to
and lives of human beings which | the lowest public taste who live,
nothing else can take.
grow fat and have their being by a
And as I meditate upon the
and cynical exposure of
press my thoughts always turn to i constant
the weekly newspapers which I naked human misfortune.
"There ought to be a law.”—
first knew as a farmer boy and Robert Warner in the Stafford
for which I wrote my first lines Springs (Conn.) Press.
that appeared in print. From that
good day to this I have held them
FERGUS E. W ALKER
in the highest esteem for what
Funeral services for Fergue E
they really are and for what they
Walker, 64, who died Sunday at
mean to their readers.
I have not done this because of the Osteopathic hospital in Med
my friendship for them nor their ford, were held at 2 p. m. Tues
friendship for me but because the day at the Litwiller Funeral Home
weekly press, as one member of with Rev. E. E. Wordsworth of
that great family of the press, is j ficiating. Interment in Hagardine
an institution which was bom to cemetery.
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live and grow and serve. First in
the hearts and lives of millions of
EMMA LUCY JONES
people who live close to nature
Funeral services for Emma
and to things both spiritual and Lucy Jones, 70, who died Tuesday
material, the weekly press is an at the Community hospital here,
essential institution that has been ' were held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at
ordained to live.
the Litwiller Funeral Home with
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the Rev. C. E. Dunham officiat
MABEL HANSEN WINS HONOR ing.
,
Interment in Mountain View
ROLL
POSITION
AT O N S cemetery.
,
Orclained To Live!
Mabel H. Hansen, daughter of
Mrs. Emma Hansen, 472 Scenic
Drive, Ashland, Oregon, earned a
place on the highest honor roll at
Oregon Normal school, Monmouth,
by doing outstanding work in her
courses during the fall quarter
just ended. Miss Hansen is com
pleting a course in elementary
teacher training. Her inclusion on
the honor roll necessitated com
pleting a minimum of 15 credit
hours with a grade point average
of 3.5 or higher. She is a graduate
of Ashland high school. Her other
activities on the Monmouth camp
us include membership in the
choir and trio.
With sympathetic tact and under
standing we endeavor to lighten
the sorrow of those we serve.
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• Silvio Zonotto of Hilt visited
friends here last week-end.
1 • Mr and Mrs. Jesse Arnold and
daughters visited for several days
in Portland this week.
• Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Barksdale
I and
Mrs. Arch Barksdale and
daughter Beverly, left Wednesday
for Glendale, Calif., where they
will visit with relatives for several
days.
FRIDAY THE
THIRTEENTH
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LET’S MAKE IT FINE
IN ’39
FOR ASHLAND!
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We wish to extend personal thanks to
all who kindly assisted in the recent
bereavement of our beloved father.
Also an appreciation of the words of
sympathy and beautiful floral offer
ings.
MR. AND MRS. KARL OESER
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• Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Brenniman
returned Wednesday from Fort
Collins, Colorado where they have
been visiting for the past three
weeks.
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To Those We Serve
Napping at the wheel of an au
tomobile is one driving practice
which results in accidents ap
proximately 100 per cent of the
time.
tn fact, one needn’t go complete
ly to sleep to put his car into the
ditch A driver whose brain has
W<* «flopped into the court hoiixn
become numbed by fatigue often the other day and found Editor
fails to see objects in the road or Hall of The Miner nerving on Jui)
sudden curves in time to avoid We wandered nil over the Joint
disaster, and more often his reac and remembered the time six short
tion is slowed just enough to make years ago nt about the name time
the difference between u narrow of year when the big building was
escape and an accident.
jammed with cohorts of the Fehl-
Statistics on ’’driver asleep'' ac I BankH-ilenrletta Martin regime
cidents art* difficult to obtain, us and a poor, lone country editor
ually because the driver himself is had almost to fight his way about
unaware of the exact cause of the the corridors. And we thanked the
mishap. The 1937 Oregon accident Lord that peace hud once more
summary showed that 273 acci spread her wings over our county.
dents involved drivers who were
Art (Hie) Powell in the Central
asleep or excessively fatigued, Point Americun.
with six fatalities resulting 'Hieae
figures are probably much too
small, since fatigue was doubtless
the chief factor in many fatal ac
cidents for which there was no
satisfactory explanation.
Sleeping drivers arc more likely
to lose their lives than those in
volved in other types of accidents
because they have no control over
the speed of their cars and can
make no attempt to stop or
What A Memory!
FALLING DOWN ON Ol R si PROSED
•HOSPITALITY’!
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swerve before colliding with ug
object.
Truck drivers who must sp<-m|
long hours ut the wheel don't hesli
late to pull off the road when thvj
feel drowsy ami take a short nap
They also stop at times, get ou|
of the cab and walk around ir
break the spell of monotony in.
iluced by the drone and vibration
of the motor. In the matter o|
food, hot beverages and li^hl
lunches nt fairly frequent Inter,
vals are better than un occasional
big meal for a driver on a long
trip.
LIFE’S BYWAYS!
DANDY LUNCH
MRS. REBA TENNYSON
Proprietor
Next to White House Groc.
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